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Comment by sepirion

In the Arcatraz, tucked in the corner of the blue room after the first boss.

Comment by Optimo

Solo'd it as a combat rogue with no points in MoD, have to vanish past the robot in the hall and wait for the Voidwalker Deamon to move out of the corner but its possible.

Comment by olystice

It's definitely soloable as a rogue, just as Optimo said. Just pop a sprint before the robot, run past and cut the corner, pop a vanish and wait for the voidwalker to leave. For other classes it's probably more of a challenge. Best to get a group.

For rogues, I believe you have to have 350 lockpicking to pick the door.

Good luck all.

Comment by Arryn

I can tell you, you do NOT have to vannish at the Robot, as soon as i got near it, popped on Cloak of Shadows in Stealth and it didnt knock me out of stealth, successfully looted Key on second try :)

Comment by Urpayne

Not sure why, but it lets me stay mounted when I fly into these instances. Just flew throught the instance to the container opened it and died. Quest done. No one else in the party was able to do it so I don't know.

Worth a shot if you can get it fly in and see if you stay mounted.

Comment by boneLazy

Yeah I got the same bug as said above. This also happens when they summon me to Caverns of Time so I can freely fly in Azeroth :) Too bad Blizzard will fix it at the next patch :P

Comment by Speedo

Looks like they nerfed this in 2.0.7, opening the container now spawns a Third Key Fragment Guardian, a 70 elite voidwalker that hurts like heck.

Comment by deoxyribose

If you take 2 rogues it is possible to kill the voidwalker, but ATM it seems glitched and wont let us actually loot him for the key frag.

Comment by Mini

Okay, I just did this 2 man with me (Druid) and a random rogue (Patch 2.0.8), the tac is to wait for the patrol to go way and then click the container and dps the fragment guardian fast before the patrol arrives again, i got the guardian to 40% myself alone when I first tried, before the patrol killed me... Notice, the patrol hits HARD!

Comment by Althal

This is duoable for 2 rogues.

Strategy: Stealth past the guards. Past the first boss up the ramp. When you get the the corridor after the ramp you see a dead robot and some other dead corpses. The robot casts a lightning bolt thingy on people who are stealthed nearby so it's not possible to just stealth by. To get past him this just pop sprint (in stealth) and use Cloak of Shadow. You will hopefully resist all his bolts and get past. If you get hit just vanish after you passed him.

When you get in the room watch for the patrolling void and the monster thing that is running around fast. Go directly to the right and you'll spot the arcane container.There will be two of the dead corpses nearby but don't worry about them, they don't aggro if you stay close to the wall.

Tactics for the fragment mob:One of the rogues (preparation is nice) opens the container so that the guard spawns when the voidwalker is in the middle of the room. Then use vanish to get back into stealth. The guardian will stay summoned so now you can both get your opening moves.

Put poisons on your weapons for extra dps and wait for the voidwalker to move to the middle of the room. Use distract when he is there for some extra seconds and start to dps the guardian down. Try to stunlock as much as possible (don't kidney shot at the same time). Save evasion for the add voidwalker. If you have good gear you can kill the mob fast, maybe even before the void is back but if not just check who the void is attacking and pop evasion if you are attacked. Use all your cooldowns and trinkets for max dps and just dps the guardian down. The void is immune against blind so no idea trying that. The guardian should hopefully die before evasion wears off and you can use vanish, or if you die after you killed the guardian just stealth back asap and loot the fragment.

I guess druids could follow on this one too but not sure how they are supposed to pass the antistealth robot.

Hope this helped :).

Comment by Alaras

I tried soloing this the other night. It's a little nerve-racking to stealth to the urn itself but certainly doable, I didn't have much trouble using CloS to get by the robot. Opened up the urn and vanished when the guardian spawned.

I tried to kill him in the urn corner but it's very sketchy knocking him off before the pat comes back. The voids have weird pathing so it's really hard to figure out when you'll actually have a decent amount of time.

I then tried distracting both pats and pulling the guardian back into the robot room. That part wasn't too hard except for the annoyance of waiting for the two voids to line up in the center of the room. The problem was that the void on that side would aggro when he came close to the doorway. He comes way too close to be safe in the robot room unless I'm missing something. Maybe there's a sweet spot where neither the robot nor void will aggro in that room.

In any case after 90 minutes of repeatedly waiting for vanish to CD I just gave up. The next night I joined a PUG and got the fragment. If you have a rogue friend it's probably easily duoable like others have said.

Comment by Dreossk

I (70 protection Paladin) used a finished instance from another group to solo the 70 beast elite. Easy fight. No potion/bubble/lay on hands.

Comment by Camran

Do you 'NEED' a flying mount to get this part of key? or can you get lock summoned?

Comment by Bjornstar

It is actually possible for a rogue to solo this.I did not have very good gear, about 6,7k hp.The "Sweet spot" to stand at when fighting the required mobs is in the room where the arcane robot is standing wich requires you to vanish. The right corner opposite where you enter that room is the place to stand. Even though the voidspawn will get close to this spot, it will not be able to see you because of the wall.First kill the corpse spawns close to the corner, then pull the white protean spawn when the void closest to the robot room is out of aggro range, kill it at the sweet spot. Now run over and open the arcane container when the void patrol closest to it is out of aggro range. Quickly stealth when the opening timer has finished so you dont get aggro from the elemental.The tricky part comes here. You have to time it so both voids are at the middle of the voidspawn room, this may require some distracts to get them there simoultaneously. Cheap shot, backstab, sprint and run to the sweet spot while hugging the walls in both rooms. If done correctly you will only have aggro from the elemental and can kill it safely.It took me two tries to get this right so it shouldnt be too hard.

Comment by SteveThePirate

As a mage I was able to invisible my way up to the ramp (took two pitstops.. will have screenshots later on), but the anti-stealth robot can zap you even if you are still invisible. note that if you try to solo the robot, 5-6 protozoan spawns will come after you too.... No longer soloable as a mage /cry

Comment by nguyencs

I was able to solo this as a 70 rogue ar/pre spec. wait for the voidwalker to pat back to the center of the room, open the key case then vanish. the key mob won't despawn. wait for your cooldowns. when the voidwalker path back to the center of the room, hit sprint, distract them, run back to the mob, and start killing it. hit blade fury, ar, and evasion. then hit prep, then ar and evasion again.

i have mostly blue/green quest gear except for gladiator helm and both maces. i forgot to use blade fury and ar and i was still able to burn him down. the voidwalker did aggro me but i killed the mob, loot the key and died. i rez and flew back to shat.

Comment by DaWookie

Solo'd this 3rd frag as a FERAL DRUID.(Right after I did the same thing for the 2nd key frag in Steamvaults.)

1)As posted above you stealth in to the hallway above the first bosses area....I would suggest that you do this naked, if something goes wrong its nice to have zip for repairs.

2)Just before you get to the Sentinel pop ur SPRINT and cross your fingers....I aimed myself from the right edge of the hallway cutting ot the left to avoid potentially aggro'ing the dead body on the right side. If you sucessfully resist the Sentinels shock and dont aggro the body pile you'll find urself in the void's room and a couple other pats, hang a hard left in the room and get ur bearings.

3) Once you see where everything is moving, make your way to the back corner where you container is and swap gear and pot, eat, etc...when the void pats into the middle of the room. Course you better get back into stealth be4 he gets back.

4)Ok ..its go time, you have figured out the voids pat, you have all your buffs up and gear is set...next time the void goes outta range, pop up and open that container!

5) This is where I have some bad news...If you can't drop 600+ dps on that elemental thats summoned, just make a full arc run and save yourself the repairs, time and headaches of trying to do this solo. Unlike the rogue who can summons it and vanish to setup their opening attacks, having just shifted if your feral you'll have 40 rage tops at the start, which gimps you. Anyways, cut loose and dont expect to come out of this alive...if you can hit the 600dps i was talking about, then just be4 the void comes into aggro range the mob will die and u can re-stealth, if your just a bit underdps then you will likely kill the summoned elemental, and aggro the void and die. a) No biggy, loot the frag quickly be4 the void kills u.(If your in typical dps gear, lucky if that takes 5 secs) b) Wash and repeat the stealth run again ...only diff is that you wear HP gear to get as high as u can...blow by the sentinel and voids, dead bodies, heck u dont care cause your not coming outta this alive anyways and head right to the corner and Autoloot right be4 you die.

In a perfect world you can accomplish this all with no deaths.However, in reality your relying on a resist of the sentinels detection/shock and very good dps from pre-kara gear that you might not have unless you have done your mathcraft homework. So, if you get lucky you might get it done without a nick...but dont expect it to be like the SV shard that is beyond easy to obtain.

Wook

Comment by malmern

How is it possible for anyone below 70 to enter Karazhan?I've seen level 69's entering, how is that possible?

Comment by Replica

You can see 68lvl in karazhan too because u dont need attunement to there anymore

Comment by Keppler258

Just managed to solo this as a level 70 Hunter Engineer.

It's not easy and not in any way practical, but it is possible to do if you're bored and looking for a challenge.

I did it with a pair of Rocket Boots Xtreme, Gnomish Universal Remote, liberal use of Feign Death and Aspect of the Monkey for a little extra luck in my favor. I would have used a Gnomish Cloaking Device, but it was on cooldown (from getting the second fragment, actually) and I was impatient. Demon tracking helps give you an idea of what demons are around the corner, but keep in mind that the protean horrors do not have a classification and cannot be tracked.

Start out by running right down the middle of the entrance by jumping strait down. As soon as you get aggro, hit the rocket boots and you should be able to run through the hallway into the next room and around the corner, getting back against the wall as much as you can before you feign death.

From here I waited the five minutes for the cooldown on the boots; since Feign Death lasts six minutes this was pretty much standard practice while trying this out. If you're as far back as you can get in that corner, you will NOT aggro the protean horrors walking past into the hallway toward the entrance, so this gives you time to get up and let the Feign Death cooldown reset. Once it does, use the rocket boots to rush around the pillar toward the hallway to the next room. I ended up aiming for the corner to the right of that hallway, feigning death before I actually got inside.

There are pats moving around here, and you do have enough time to stand up and get back against the wall as they move about. Once you're as far back as you can get, you shouldn't aggro anything. Wait for cooldowns and run around the corner, using your rocket boots as soon as you get aggro again, rushing into the next room with the first boss. Aim for the wall on the right and feign in the corner to avoid the Death Watcher and Soul Devourer patting around.

Once the coast is clear and, again, cooldowns are up, you can rocket around the corner and move up the ramp toward the Arcatraz Sentinel, and feign once you're at the top. A protean horror showed up for me here, but he's easily killed without pulling anything else.

I used the Gnomish Universal Remote on the sentinel and actually did not take control of him; rooting him in place gave me a little lead as I rocketed past him into the Negaton room. Go around the corner toward the key frag and feign as close as you can to it, keeping in mind that something will be chasing you closely. There is a Negaton Warp-Master that pats close enough to catch you no matter how far back you are, so you have to do this last part fast.

Wait in the back corner and watch that Negaton Warp-Master. As soon as you feel he is far enough away to stand up and not pull him, do so and quickly open then Arcane Container. You have to be very fast to kill the guardian and loot him before the Warp-Master pats back. Do so, loot, and there you have it. Hearth out and turn in the quest :D

Comment by Crocxr8

Not that it matters much anymore, but I also solo'd this as a NE feral druid, took many many tries to figure out, but I believe my way doesn't require as much luck as the 'resisting the lightning' method above. But its only for night elves. You can thank 3.0.2 for this method too.

Stealth upto the Arcane Sentinel room, making sure to kill the Horror pat on your way.

Faerie fire the Sentinel in cat, sprint backwards and use Natures Grasp/Roots to root him back at the top of the ramp.Run back to just before his room to avoid the corpses in there and Shadowmeld Vanish, just be sure to move out of the room quickly after otherwise you'll get hit with lightning when he gets back.

Stealth around to the arcane container and as above, open it when the Negaton Warp-Master is just leaving, I took the guardian in cat but in tanking gear. Got him down just as the Warp-Master got back so I switched to bear, looted the guardian, and got a free port out of the instance courtesy of the Warp-Master >.<

Hope this helps

Comment by MasterSage1

Solo'ed this as a 80 NE druid easy, with 22k hp in human *cough* NE form and 30k in bear form. I stealthed the entire way there. When leaving i agro'ed the sentinal that shocks you which was funny cause he didnt see me when i passed him going in. Killed him and left.

Comment by Erethzium

Solo'd as a Shadow priest in all 213 (25man naxx, OS, VoA) gear, had a little trouble though with fighting the Voidwalker mobs, seeing as they gained resistance to whatever spell I was attacking them with, and because it feared me into another mob =/

But I managed to get to the container easily after killing a single Voidwalker.

Comment by rider8

Is this doable for an elemental/resto draeni shammy with 4100 gearscore and a feral druid tank with 4250 gear score, ^ | 41k health, 31.19% dodge

Comment by grafs

do i need a key to get in here or not? and if so where do i get it at?

Comment by berlimeisthemix

The dam thing is in the 2nd floor on ur right hand side in the room

Comment by Eveliniz

Alright, for those 70+ that have plans to solo this, notice that you can't enter the raid without being in a raidgroup.

Just in case you wanted to do this 7 am when no one else is online.

Comment by ryoohki

Uhg I have to be in a raid to do it. Crap

Comment by MatteoG

Its a five man dungeon? Maybe you're thinking of tempest keep...

Comment by wowheadizmydaddy

Maybe he's thinking of the final raid instance (Black Morass) where the player has to talk with Medivh. 7am... ergggh.

Comment by eell

thanks, great resource .and always on the money.

Comment by aepling

What nobody else is telling you is when you first enter the Arcatraz you are at the bottom level and will spend an hour there trying to find the entrance to the other levels, the Maximus and the Containment level if you don't know what to look for. The secret is that in the last room where the boss is, on the right, there is a "glass" ramp that is practically invisible that leads up to the next level which is the "Maximus". You have to step onto the ramp to see that it is really there. It winds around to the left and up. That is where the third fragment is in a corner with a boss. Kill him and click on the urn, and another guardian comes out to attack you. He holds the key fragment. Kill him and get the fragment.